Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 18:30

A church father on this verse
“The ministers of the grace of God have, by the Holy Spirit, spoken of repentance; and the Lord of all things has himself declared with an oath regarding it, "As I live, says the Lord, I desire not the death of the sinner, but rather his repentance;" [Ezekiel 33:11] adding, moreover, this gracious declaration, "Repent,…”
Clement of Rome, 1th c. — Clement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 8

Source: Septuagint

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30I will judge you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord, each one according to his way: be converted, and turn from all your ungodliness, and it shall not become to you the punishment of iniquity.

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28and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.

29Yet the house of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not right. Is not my way right, O house of Israel? is not your way wrong?

— Ezekiel 18:30 —

31Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness wherein ye have sinned against me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should ye die, O house of Israel?

32For I desire not the death of him that dies, saith the Lord.

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